Keats’ House, partially concealed by mellow fruitfulness.

Obscure Shatner of the day: 1973's PIONEER WOMAN, w/ Shatner, Joanna Pettet, a very young Helen Hunt & David Janssen! Directed by Buzz Kulik (SHAMUS)! m.ok.ru/video/741546...

Once again I am asking commenters making some variation of “you deserve this” to remember that Trump supporters are only 37% of the adult population; that several areas of Alabama went heavily for Harris, and that those areas by and large are the ones suffering most from the White House’s policies.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

"D'you do double entry, dear? Kindly tell me, if so." "I do double entry, dear. But in the morning, no." Cole Porter, everyone ("But in the Morning, No" from Du Barry Was a Lady, 1939)

They may look like house cats, but sand cats are fearless predators! Our sand cats both now live in the brand-new TLC Foundation Small Cat Hideaway. Over 800 gallons of sandy substrate were spread through their habitats for the cats to enjoy digging and playing in! 📷: Male Simba by keeper Brooke

Not a fan of Sliwa but I admire that he’s a genuine weirdo who’s gonna go home to his 17 cats and get a good nights sleep and enjoy living in New York for the next four years while Cuomo is snapping 12 pencils in his hands every five seconds and won’t have a moment of inner peace

I think mayor-elect Mamdani is the greatest promoter of NYC food culture since Anthony Bourdain.

If I lived in Los Angeles, nothing would keep me from this. Not inertia or traffic or a cloud of locusts. NOTHING.

Dare I say….I feel… Hopeful? 😅

Happy Vivien Leigh's birthday!

today's semi-random theater photo: Fred Clark and birthday girl Natalie Schafer in Peter Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet (1957)

the Burn City Center to the Ground season: • Whoop-Up • Christine • Bajour

In the end Mayor Adams stood for NYPD overtime abuse, free upgrades to Istanbul, and city employees parking on the sidewalk

Now I need Bret Stephens' take. Preferably filed from a bunker in Fort Worth. Don't hold out on me, NY Times.

Sour like a 1-pound bag of Warhead candies.

“The youngest New York mayor in more than a century. The city’s first Muslim mayor, first South Asian mayor, first mayor born in Africa.” In First Draft from Zeteo, ⁦‪Peter Rothpletz ‬⁩on a historic night for Mamdani, for Dems, for NYC, for America:

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Good morning!

Rs want it both ways. They want to mock Democrats and excuse whatever Trump says about them. Senators laugh if you ask about Trump's AI posts - he's just trolling, lol! They also want any crazy or offensive thing *Dems* say to be a horrifying violence-inspiring threat. Can't have both. (2/2)

Happy birthday to the foolishly overlooked Joel McCrea who put “dishy” in the dictionary and starred in two of the very finest romantic comedies: The Palm Beach Story in which he loves Claudette Colbert while fending off Mary Astor, and The More The Merrier where he (rightly) adores Jean Arthur.

oh they're calling NJ for sherrill

Am I going to remember who voted for Cuomo? Forever and ever.

A significant percentage of the people saying that Mamdani will turn New York into a smoking urban hellscape ruled according to the dictates of Sharia law are the same people who,a year ago,were doubled over laughing at the people who thought Donald Trump might be harboring antidemocratic ambitions.

It's been a long time since Democrats got to indulge in humor that wasn't gallows humor and I'm loving it

Fuck this fucking coward, I hope he gets crushed in a primary by a Palestinian bodega owner from Bay Ridge

He knew he wouldn't win & was in it to torpedo Cuomo, why wouldn't they be having a good time

lol. lmao.

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

It’s Vivien’s birthday tomorrow.

Book and a drink at a bar ahead of seeing Frankenstein at one of my two local 1920s movie theaters.

One of the most depressing things about dipshit Schumer’s leadership of the Dems is I’ve been at actual multiple protests outside his house across from Prospect Park where the protest theme was ‘do something, anything, we’re begging you’

Didn’t have the heart to take the last Zohran for Queens sticker at my canvassing shift today, but if you are in NYC, and have not yet voted: GO TO THE POLLS! They’re open until 9pm tonight. Every vote counts 💙

fun fact: Portnoy already claims permanent residence in Florida to avoid paying NY City and State income taxes

Review: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk intheirownleague.com/2025/08/23/r... -Now in limited release in the US check out our review here at the League! #putyoursoulonyourhandandwalk #womeninfilm

UK and European Grey Heron will be looking their very best right now. Topped up from a successful summer, looking to hit winter at a pace, and get straight into nesting... in January for the most southerly.

I had a hard time with Milton in college, but I love this account.

That's a lotta lights, but count me in. Ad from 1934.

Bodegas are independent, owner-operated, eccentrically stocked, at least slightly shabby, and the cashier speaks more than one language (one of which may or may not be English). The cat is optional but its major attitude is not. Come on, this isn't hard.

A young family member is currently hiding in a UVA library following an active shooter alert for the second time in a year. This is what our kids think is normal. My God.

The Bowl of Grapes by Georges Braque, 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137424

Black Swan at Benbow Pond with ripples. #Swanday #Stunday #Reflections #Swans #Photography

I'll just bet he bloody well does, especially insofar as Andrew's demotion makes it obvious that some people have seen the unredacted files.

Zohran Mamdani working to peel off a few more "Curtis Sliwa Cat Lady" votes 😭

Composer John Barry, BOTD in 1933 (d. 2011), is best known as the man behind the sound of 007. Barry scored 11 James Bond films, yet it was his non-Bond work that earned him 5 Oscars and numerous other accolades during his long career as a leading film composer. 1/... #filmsky #musicsky #moviesky

Remembering André Malraux on his birthday 🎂 📷 David Seymour, 1936 "The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis."

can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything

Autumn Joan Blondell with #MondayMood

all the anti-mamdani hysteria seems to assume that we have had a long succession of Extremely Good Mayors in new york